Born on the Kitchen Floor in Bois Mallet: The Story of a Free Black Creole Family from its Arrival in French Colonial Louisiana, to its Fight to Remain Free, and its Endurance Through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Exile, and Jim Crow

This is the story of a free black Creole family with beginnings in French Louisiana in 1740. It's a story of struggle and triumph with an indomitable cast of characters. The narrative traces the family's beginnings from the union between a litigious runaway slave of African descent and a conniving French settler who is an early colonizer in the Louisiana territory. The book is a tribute to the slave matriarch who managed to obtain and secure her own freedom and that of her four children who...